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Judges 7

way that a decision shall find a strong party to
support it in the public at large when if which had
it cause f been no more than the opinion of a
single Judge had it had no more than a single
Judge for its author would have been marked by
universal reprobation.

A single Judge sees nobody to assist him in
overbearing the public opinion by the force of prejudice.
His opinion has no weight but what it
derives from its own merits.

8 6 4. responsibility by affording a fair way of doing the work of corruption by halves: i:e by absenting 4. It affords When the number of Judges is
considerable it affords a safe and sure means
of practising the grossest improbity without loss of
character and with a certainty of success: I mean
by non-attendance. Bribery or partiality interest
me in favour of the Defendant. one of the parties But the Plaintiff
in my judgment he is so palpably in the wrong is so plainly in the right that
I can not without too great a wound to forfeiting my character give my
vote on the other side in his favour. What do
I do? I stay away. By this means though I
do not vote for my friend, I save him myself from
voting against him, and he is as well off again I serve him as well again
as I could have done as he would have been had I gone and given my vote.

Identifier: | JB/051/229/006 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	229a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 229.	Info in main headings field
Image	006	Titles	note?
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l munn
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16394
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